[PD] Gem (multimodel and pix_film) glitches

[Johannes Taelman]

hi

> > A last point: has anybody gotten pix_film combined with pix_alpha up
> > and running? The combination of both consistently crashes pd on my
> > box.
>
> I tried the same last week also without any success (on win2k). Now I use
> pix_multiimage instead. That one works stable.

Before anyone replies with 'rtfm', I just got it to work. Do not forget a
pix_rgba in your chain!

[pix_film]
 |
[pix_rgba]
 |
[alpha]
 |
[pix_alpha]
 |
<various geometric transformations>
 |
[cube]

Works nice!

> There seems to be another bug in pix_film: If you keep on opening
> different movies (automatically), it crashes. It seems like it opens files
> but does not close them. Windows reported that there were too many files
> open. I haven't looked in the source though.

Sorry I was inaccurate here: I was working with pix_movie.

regards,
j#|@